Reasons of Adoption
Kim Park Gregg, a researcher at the Social Welfare History Archive at the University of Minnesota, said her white parents adopted her when she was 7 months old as a way to create a family.
Christina Romo: "I believe that every child, teen, and adult deserves a permanent and loving family."
"When my parents chose to form their family through adoption, they changed the course of my life for the better ... I had someone who was there at my basketball games and school plays ... someone there to support me at my middle school, high school, and college graduations ... someone to walk me down the aisle at my wedding, and my sons will forever be surrounded by a large family who will always love and support them."
Harry Holt and his wife, Bertha , adopted eight Korean children in 1955 because they believed that it was his calling from God to help those children.
Nicole Chung wrote, "This was during the early years of the Cold War, when the U.S. was really coming to terms with its new status as a superpower. Terrible racism at home ... made the U.S. look bad, and Americans knew it. So adopting Korean children was seen as one way to counter the image of the U.S. as racist."
The Adoption History Project wrote, "Adoption was an act of faith. Love was enough to make the families that children needed."